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The Kanagawa Prefectural Police arrested a 55-year-old Kawasaki man Wednesday on suspicion of projecting a laser beam on a Maritime Self-Defense Force jet in flight. Police allege that Kazuhiko Date of Kawasaki’s Asao Ward used a laser pointer on the night of July 19 ...

A skeletonized body believed to be that of a missing man a convicted murderer confessed to having killed in a separate case has been found on a mountainside in Saitama Prefecture, investigative sources said Wednesday. The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department is looking into the ...

Police on Wednesday served fresh arrest warrants to three developers of a computer application that enables remote access to other people’s smartphones, and separately arrested the leader of the software development team. Wataru Ishida, a 40-year-old executive of Yokohama-based Internal Corp., Kotaro Katakura, the ...

An employee of Japanese news organization Nikkei Inc. was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of illegally accessing the email accounts of a popular Japanese model, a former idol group member and two others. Jun Terai, a 29-year-old staffer in the newspaper’s digital division, is suspected ...

Officers at five prisons and juvenile detention facilities in Shikoku have been reprimanded over errors in administering medicine to inmates, it was learned Tuesday. An information disclosure request to the Takamatsu correctional bureau of the Justice Ministry has found that, between January 2012 and ...

Pop singer-songwriter Aska was arrested Monday for allegedly using illegal stimulants, which would violate the parole terms of his suspended 2014 prison sentence. The 58-year-old Aska, whose real name is Shigeaki Miyazaki, had posted a number of comments on his blog on Monday afternoon ...

The Nagoya High Court on Monday overturned a lower court acquittal of the nation’s youngest mayor, declaring him guilty of taking bribes when he was an assembly member in 2013. Dismissing the earlier decision, the high court sentenced Minokamo Mayor Hiroto Fujii of Gifu ...

A body of a man was found buried Sunday on a farm in the village of Nanmoku, Nagano Prefecture, local police said. The body, apparently that of an adult male, had not decayed, the police said, adding the corpse was clad in jeans and ...

A number of judges nationwide have voiced caution about using recorded interrogations in criminal trials to help determine the credibility of confessions made during investigations, sources said. The views were expressed when 40 judges from across the country exchanged opinions on recorded interrogations at ...

A man was arrested late Saturday on suspicion of raping a Japanese tourist the previous day in the famed beach resort of Kovalam in the southern Indian state of Kerala, police said. According to the police, the woman was hospitalized after the attack, which ...